Seeking World Domination (5)

Blog Entry on the Wednesday 03rd, December, 2008

Still seeking world domination.... [1] [2] [3] [4].

Unseen presentation and 1st Interview tomorrow. Really good advice from Derek today, critical feedback can be really helpful, especially when running through my examples.

And - I have a really bad head cold so preparation today is hard work - especially if you leave everything to the last minute. new suit, new shirt - polish shoes....

 

World Domination - Postponed

Blog Entry on the Monday 08th, December, 2008

World domination.... [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].... Postponed.

Did not get the job. The best man won - well done Mr John Dempster. Looks like I will have to call you boss (Again). Seriously well done John - he is a good friend, nice bloke and a damn good boss. The twenty-nine years experience in traffic control is a lot of knowledge. A.C.E. (Acting Chief Engineer) is now just plain R.C.E. real Chief Engineer. I am happy to buy you a beer next Friday.

Also got some initial feedback, looks like I got my tactics wrong for the presentation, but did well on the interview questions. Lots of good positive things to take away and some really good detailed feedback, both professionally and for the maybe the next opportunity.

Anyway I am being an adult and definitely not sulking, at all, no way, no sulking here please move along.

Congratulations to Mark Cracknell - just seen the photo of the scan on facebook.

 

BBC Journalism at its best

Blog Entry on the Monday 15th, December, 2008

One of the best pieces of Journalism I have watched; Back From The Front. I have a copy on DVD for overseas people with the BBC's iPlayer or try google. This edition of Newsnight will win awards, the BBC at its best. Very moving, insightful, though-provoking and touching.

 

Pox

Blog Entry on the Monday 15th, December, 2008

Poor Connor has chicken pox.

 

Another Christmas

Blog Entry on the Thursday 25th, December, 2008

Another Christmas.


Lofs of Christmas photos and videos.

The boys have lots of loverly stuff including Scalectrix, (aka Racing);


The boy also got book each, "The Transport Challenge" - A.J. & B.M. Sleight (c) November 25, 2008. A limited edition run of 3 books. See contents (pdf) and front cover (pdf).


I got my usual Subscription, ties a few USB trinkets and some Dalek cuff-links. I made and had printed some photo-mosaic posters for Allyson. The final images were ~ 10Mb. The poster is 80cmx60cm, so each mosaic image is about 1 cm. I used metapixel

 

Determine - Alpha-Alpha-Alpha

Blog Entry on the Tuesday 30th, December, 2008

I have been playing with a new project, something I may call Determine. Currently as at very early stage (pun intended).

Determine is to determine the timing of a traffic signal site, in particular produce a nice diagram.

From the command line:
python ./libdetermine.py --type=./traffic-signal-types.xml --site=./example-site-2.xml --output=/tmp/diagram.xml --png=/tmp/diagram.png



Python and XML! The next task is to try and get the (traffic) stage reporting correct, but it is always nice to be able to post an actual simple diagram at this early stage.